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MARCH is finally here. Spring arrives this month, and although the weather is unpredictable, guild activities are not. It’s time to think of next year’s leadership, time to start (or finish) the box top chal-lenge due in April, time to sign up for a last retreat or workshop. It’s also time to start thinking about next year’s quilt show. The commit-tee certainly is! While I’m on the subject of time, it has just turned into a “@#&$” four letter word for me. I thought my quilting for March was predictable, box top challenge being first on the list, but my husband and I have just been invited to a celebration that requires a gift. Buy something or make two quilts? TIME is critical, as the party is in April. And I have two other projects that I NEED to start and finish first! We’ve all been in
this position before, but it is one situa-tion that doesn’t seem to get any eas-ier with practice! Please take the time to read the news-letter, seriously consider participating in the various activities/positions avail-able, and continue to make our guild a place you want to be. We belong to something special, but it needs YOU to keep it going. HAPPY QUILTING!
President’s Message - Shirley MacFadden-Geiger
Next Meeting: March 12, 2012 Doors open at 6:45 p.m. and the meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. Programme: Sherrill Crowder Our next meeting is on Tuesday, February 12, 2013. Join us for a trunk show with Garnet Smalley. It will focus on stories and quilts related to the Out of Africa quilt show coming to London in June. Shop of the month: Quilting Quarters Fat quarter theme: Winter is almost over and batiks are a beautiful way to forget the slushy snow banks
March 2013 Com mon Th read Quil t Guild Newsletter
Inside this issue:
March 2013
Report from the “inch” collector 2 December Blocks 5
Vice-President’s Message 2 Workshops 6
Calendar of Events 2013 3 Challenge 2012-13 6
Retreats 4 Quilt Musing 7
Community Projects 5 Upcoming Events 8
Thanks to our members for all the positive feedback regarding Dr. Mark Hunter’s presentation at our February Meeting. Dr. Hunter is pleased to share with the Guild his presenta-tion and the Daily Spinal Hygiene Exercises. To retrieve these documents, go to the CTQG’s home page.
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Directors of the Guild
President Shirley MacFadden- Geiger
Vice-President Jeannine Lemay
Secretary Judy Loree
Treasurer Kirstin Fearon
Past-President Susan Baker
Program Sherrill Crowder
Heads of Standing Committees
Retreats Barb Till
Membership Del Jazey
Rachel Mathews
Workshops Sylvie Proulx
Community Catherine Parkinson
Projects
Library Nettie Jolley
Newsletter & Andrée Faubert
Website
CTQG Mailing Address: P.O. Box 62022 RPO Convent Glen Orleans, ON K1C 7H8
To reach members of the executive, write to [email protected]
Report from the "inch" collector Your inches have turned into a total of 1.71 miles (2.4 km)!
Congratulations! Our total for February is 30,739 inches - our
longest month of the whole campaign!
In Orleans we have stitched from the
MIFO centre, along Carriere, down Or-
leans Blvd. to St. Joseph, left on St. Jo-
seph, right onto Jeanne D'Arc and
across the bridge to Fortune Ave.
See the picture of the final "inch" quilt that brought up the end of
our Bring and Brag session in February on page 4.
I have enjoyed collecting the "inches" each month and was so im-
pressed with the participation and enthusiasm displayed by the
members of the guild. You are a wonderful talented group of la-
dies and I am proud to be a member along side of you.
I shall report the cross country distance at our March meeting.
Susan
Spring is approaching… I think. I know, it is still snowing out there and quite cold, but I am pretty sure that spring is around the cor-ner soon enough and YES, it will come. You know what else comes with spring? The time to finish your Guild Quilt Challenge. I bet you were thinking I was going to say the election of the executive and committees. OK, I have to admit this was my next topic. As you know, we need to fill some vacant Executive and Committee
positions for the 2013-14 year. Have you ever thought of joining the executive or a committee? Make this year your year. You will not be left to figure out what you are supposed to do; the executive and committee members are there to help you learn your new functions, to support you and act as mentors to ensure that you are set for success.
Please support your Guild. Your Guild is as good and interesting as its members make it. Your involvement and input are always welcome and only makes for a greater organization.
Looking forward to working with you.
Wanted for 2013-2014
Newsletter
Website
Workshops
Vice-President’s Message Jeannine Lemay
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Date Event Details
March 12, 2013
Regular meeting Program: Out of Africa with Garnet Smalley Shop of the month: Quilting Quarters Fat quarter theme: Winter is almost over and batiks are a beautiful way to forget the slushy snow banks
March 22-24, 2013 OR April 12-14, 2013 Friday to Sunday
In-town retreat (choose one week-end only)
Notre-Dame-des-Champs Community Centre, 3659 Navan Rd. or R.J. Kennedy Community Centre, Cumberland
April 9, 2013
Regular meeting Program: TBD Shop of the month: MadAboutPatchwork Fat quarter theme: Greens for new leaves and purples for tulips
May 3, 2013 Saturday
Workshop with Irene Lafleche
Quilt Diva Notre-Dame-des-Champs Community Centre, 3659 Navan Rd.
May 14, 2013
Regular meeting and Annual general meeting
Program: Spring Social and Challenge Shop of the month: The Country Quilter Fat quarter theme: Prints for children playing I Spy in the playground
June 11, 2013 Regular meeting Program: ArtWear Ottawa fashion show Shop of the month: TBD Fat quarter theme: Water colours of any kind to celebrate our country's lakes, rivers and oceans
Calendar of Events 2013
MEET SUSAN K. CLEVELAND,
THE ORIGINAL “PIPING HOTTIE”! She’s a Minnesota firecracker and internationally-recognized quilter,
author, and teacher. She’s known for her impeccable piecing and detailing. AND
She’s visiting Quilty Pleasures!
Catch the fun and share the excitement by joining us for Susan’s • Eclectic Quilt Parade Trunk Show – Wednesday, April 17 6:30 - 9:30 • Piping Hot Curves “Macaroni” Class – Thursday, April 18 10:00 - 4:30
Call us soon for details and to guarantee your spot!
2211 St. Joseph Blvd Orleans ON K1C 7C5 613- 834-3044
www.quiltypleasures.ca
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Retreats for Spring 2013
In-town March 22-24, 2013 (choose one) April 12-14, 2013 March 22-24, 2013 at Notre Dame Des Champs Community Centre (spaces available): Friday, March 22nd 10:00 to 22:00 Saturday, March 23rd 08:00 to 22:00 Sunday, March 24th 09:00 to 17:00
Or
April 12-14, 2013 at the R.J. Kennedy Community Centre in Cumberland (waiting list): Friday, April 12th 10:00 to 22:00 Saturday, April 13th 08:00 to 22:00 Sunday, April 14th 09:00 to 17:00 Sign up for one of the two weekend retreats
offered; Fee is $75 for members ($90 for non-members); Price includes meals. Sign up by email or at guild meetings. Barb Till [email protected]
Karine’s
Quilting
Touch Quilt making services
Karine Chapleau [email protected] (613) 824-9598
Appointment required! Services guaranteed Pick-up and delivery service available Bilingual service available
Special occasion coming up? Why not have a memory quilt made? Let me quilt it for you!
Do you have that quilt top that just needs quilt-ing? Let me help you. Give me a call.
Get your quilt back within a month!
Upon presentation of this ad and your guild membership card, you will receive 10% off any quilting services.
Fabric & Wool ♦ Patterns ♦ Notions ♦ Sewing Machines ♦
Quilting ♦ Sewing and Knitting Classes
Authorized Pfaff Sewing Machine and Serger Dealer Sales and Service
Come and see our fabric selection – we specialize in batiks, Kaffe Fassett, and
McKenna Ryan
Store Hours Mon-Fri 10-5, Sat 9:30–4
106 John St. N, Arnprior ON Phone (613) 623-0500 Fax (613) 623-0434
www.sewinspired.ca Email: [email protected]
Final “inch” quilt
How can you help? You can sign out a bag of do-nated fabric to sew into a top or finished quilt; or sign out a quilt top to be quilted; or donate a quilt, backing or batting.
1) The Common Thread Quilt Guild collects monthly donations of Cuddle Quilts for use at the General Campus of the Ottawa Hospital. Our goal for 2012-2013 is 350. 38 were delivered in Febru-ary.
SIZE MATTERS: Check out the size requirements: for optimum utility, please make your Cuddle Quilts 18” x 24”, or make them 22” square. Our battings and backings are cut 24”x 24” to finish 22” square.
2) We support the women’s programs and seniors programs at the Eastern Ottawa Resource Centre with adult themed Comfort
Quilts (40" x 60”). We have a request from the Eastern Ottawa Re-
source Centre for walker pockets. These are pouches that hang on walkers and are used for carrying items like glasses, wallets, magazines, etc. We are asking that you return the finished pockets by March. In December we delivered 10 walker pockets and have committed to giving them 30 more.
3) CHEO Children’s Oncology –Children’s quilts from tots to teens.
4) CHEO Dialysis - Children’s quilts from tots to teens.
5) Chernobyl Quilts - All sizes from infant to adult can be donated for shipping to Chernobyl.
6) Interval House - Bright and cheerful quilts.
Thank you Jan. 25, 2013
Dear Victoria,
All of your quilts are bagged and
ready to go!! Dave has a special place for the 40 x
60’s and the small ones are for the baby
orphanages. They will love them for sure!
It’s exciting for us to see the different colours and
designs. Frankly, I don’t know how your guild
does so much. Sometime after Feb 5th, we’ll turn
over the quilts.
Many, many thanks.
Mary Bernard
P.S. If it’s any help, you could machine stitch on
the bindings, they are more durable that way.
Community Projects Committee Chairperson: Catherine Parkinson; Barb Donaldson,
Catherine Senecal, and Victoria VanderLinden
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December blocks Congratulations to all! Six quilt tops made from the completed blocks brought back in January have been donated to CTQG community quilts, Victoria's Quilts and Quilts of Valour (two going to each). Thanks to all for their participation, with special appreciation to Linda Won, Tammy Davies, Paulette Beauchamp, Ann-Louise Masek, Susan Baker, Kathy Scorah and Danielle Butt who helped with the organization, cutting of pieces and sewing of quilt tops.
2679 Alta Vista Dr., Ottawa ON K1V 7T5 (Alta Vista Shopping Centre – Alta Vista Dr. At Bank St.)
613-521-9839 Open Monday to Thursday 10 to 5:30 - Saturday 10 to 5
Friday 10 to 7 (except July & August)
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Good day ladies! Here’s the line-up at press time: • May 4 (Saturday) – Quilt Diva – Notre-Dame des Champs in Navan – bring
your pattern – (available at Dragonfly Fabrics – not sure if Quilty Pleasures or Aunt Beth’s has it)
Our regular workshop fees are $35 for CTQG members and, $40 for non-members. Special workshops will be priced differently. Remember that we need a minimum of 6 registered quilters that have paid, to run a workshop or else it gets cancelled and fees get reimbursed to those who had registered and paid. I'm looking for fresh and new quilt workshop ideas. If you have workshop sug-gestion, send me information at: [email protected] See you at the March meeting!
Workshops Sylvie Proulx
Just a reminder that your completed Challenge pieces are due at the April 9th meeting. For those of you who like to work under pressure, you have one month left, it’s not too late! Please remember to also bring your box top and to label your project, but cover up the label so that voting will be fair. The pieces will be displayed at the meeting on May 14th where everyone in attendance will get to vote for their favorite. You will get to take your piece home with you after the May meeting.
Challenge 2012-2013 Ginette Vallières
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Quilt Musing Jane Maddin
I have been listening to new podcasts this week, while I am away from my sewing machine. I was listening to one that relates to quilting and the inter-viewer asked the interviewee what she was working on. And the interviewee (whose name I did not catch, but who was a blogger who details her pro-gress on-line) proceeded to talk about the quilts that she was working on. And she sounded embar-rassed to admit that she had about 5 quilts in pro-gress AT THE SAME TIME. I thought the interviewer (also a quilter) handled the whole thing very well, because she said to her, "Oh, you are just normal, then!" I have written musings on this topic before. I think I mentioned the woman in the fabric store who only allows herself to buy the fabric to make ONE project at a time. And her personal rule is, she must finish that project before she goes on to do another. (I have to say, if I worked in a fabric store this would be the only way that I would ever get to take home a paycheck... otherwise I would just sign the thing over, and walk out with additions to my stash...) I have many quilting friends. And I don't think I know ANYONE else who follows that personal rule. I love to have several projects on the go (as long as they don't get too far ahead of me, of course!) I like to have something that I am binding, something that I am cutting, something that I am planning, some-thing that I am piecing (although that stage usually gets me so excited that I forge on with it and get it quilted and the binding on there) AND something all ready to quilt. (I'm not keen on having something ready to go onto the frame - but I am pretty pleased with myself when I have something ON the frame, ready to go!) I'm also pretty enthused about having something that I am learning on the go too, some-thing new to me... I'm beginning to think about what to do with these one-off blocks... Each stage in a quilt is different. The nice thing about binding something is that that is a portable
project (when so many quilting things are not!) And, of course, when the binding is done the quilt is finished too. (Usually) The nice thing about cutting is that once the pieces go on the design wall, you be-gin to see how the quilt is going to look when it is all finished. The nice thing about piecing is that it works up so fast and you can see progress happening before your very eyes, and the nice thing about planning is that it is SO exciting!!! And the quilting itself is wonderful (when everything goes well) because you are beginning to finish the quilt! I love all those steps and I feel eager to get on with each one of them. And I might actually get bored with working on the same quilt or project. Sometimes I intermix projects as a reward. Do this boring bag, and you can be rewarded by starting that pretty baby quilt... or make these three blocks, so that you can be rewarded by taking this quilting class and starting THAT neat project! Interspersing steps means that I will shortly have two exciting projects done rather than one that I have gotten slightly tired of working on! I know that there are people who work so hard on something, or they find it so difficult, or they are so worried that it isn't perfect that they grow to hate a project; and as a result it goes under the bed or in a box and never gets finished. I have never had this happen with quilting. It may be because I don't tend to let projects carry on too long -- so I don't get tired of them. I have made a few projects where I will never do again (stack and whack comes to mind) but I finished them (and gave them away!) So here's the point of this diatribe: Normal is de-fined as: conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural. By this definition, if you have several projects on the go (and even a few that aren't actually going any-where) then you are absolutely NORMAL!! So, I would like to invite you to embrace your nor-malcy, enjoy your quilting and have fun!!
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Upcoming Events
Upper Canada Village invites all quilters to enter their 2013 UCV Quilt Challenge
The quilt is to be medallion style, either pieced and/or appliqued. It should be a square quilt, each side a mini-mum 30 inches, to a maximum of 40 inches. You can use up to civil war era reproduction fabrics. All entries can be either machine or hand pieced, as well as hand or ma-chine quilted. The theme for 2013 is the bicentennial of the Battle of Crysler's Farm. For more information, see the poster on our website at: http://www.commonthread.on.ca/pdfs/UCVQuiltChallengeInfoSheet-2013.pdf
Route 66 Traveling Quilts March 16-17 and March 23-24, 2013
See the 80-Piece Hoffman Challenge Quilts Exhibit as well as the Route 66 Traveling Quilts collection of 56 quilts honoring the historic high-way that spans eight U.S. states will travel to the Great Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center, 401 W. Main St., Sackets Harbor, NY. http://www.seawaytrail.com/quilting/2013show/
Ottawa Guild of Lacemakers 25th annual Lace Day
April 7th, 2013 from noon to 4 pm.
RA Center, Clark Room, 2451 Riverside Drive , Ottawa Entrance fee is $3.00 for adults and free for children under 12.
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Library Nettie Jolley
Before the meeting, drop by the library and pick up a few books or magazines for inspiration. Don’t forget to bring back your books that you borrowed previously!
Kawartha Quiltmakers' Guild Feelings in Fabric 2013
May 3-5, 2013
Peterborough Sport & Wellness Centre 775 Brealey Drive Peterborough, Ontario
Admission $6.00
Featured Quilter Chris Goehuis
Out of Africa 2013
June 12-15, 2013
Hilton Grand Ballroom 300 King St, London, Ontario
Over 200 quilts from Africa as well as 10 quilts from the tentmakers of Cairo. Workshops with African teachers. Daily slideshow/lecture. www.londoninternationalquiltfestival.com
Ailsa Craig Quilts of Israel May 20 to May25, 2013
Mon-Wed 9:30-6, Thur-Fri 9:30-8, and Sat 9-4
155 Annie Ada Shipley St, Ailsa Craig Exhibition of over 100 quilts, plus workshops with Israeli teachers! http://www.ailsacraigquiltfestival.ca
Festival of Quilts 2013, Ottawa
May 10 to May 12, 2013
RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Dr., Ottawa Fri & Sat 10-5, Sun 10-4
Admission $8, weekend pass $12,
children 12 and under free
www.ottawavalleyquiltersguild.org
